PhotoLayers 12+

I have searched so many times for a truly free app to let me do what Snapchat stickers do but with more control. Just the cutting and layering part that is so necessary for what people think of as photoshop! It’s been so ridiculously hard but I finally stumbled on this app and I’m so happy
It’s not perfect, the erasing tool is a little weird to predict where it’ll actually be in comparison to your finger, but at least there’s a restore tool to clean up my lines and fix what I accidentally erased.
Still though! Smarter ai than Snapchat lol, crisp and helpful tools, lots of layering options, p intuitive controls—at the very least easy to figure out without messing anything up. I’m happy :)

My eraser tool is suddenly horrible! Not only is the actual application of the eraser / scissor tool so much more difficult ... it leaves a shadow or halo around the edges. I’ve always found the auto cut extremely accurate and easy to use. Now, it deletes half my project or doesn’t get close enough to the outer edge. In addition, if I do it manually ... the new Move Only tab doesn’t seem to actually do anything. I wind up deleting whatever is under the dot as I try to maneuver it to another part of my project. Is this all user error? Can someone provide me with some tips to get it to work like it used to? I wish I never updated it ...

Realized today that I’ve been using PhotoLayers for 3+ years. It’s been consistently good, and it’s been my go-to for anything I can’t do with the native iPhone photo editor.

The app has always run smoothly. Adding layers, removing backgrounds, fine-tuning crop jobs, and inverting/rotating are easy and the “recently used” option to re-add layers is handy.

Ads occasionally show up after saving. They aren’t intrusive since they’re played at a point where you’ve stopped work anyway… I also appreciate that the ads pay for my free app rather than the developers harvesting my user data. PhotoLayers has a clear privacy policy and only stores my photos locally.

I can’t think of any other utility app that I’ve been able to rely on so consistently.